Category: miscellaneous

I have a few old PC’s lying around that I might just do this with.  How about you? » Make this an open source Christmas | Open Source | ZDNet.com

In the recent release and media hype of the two newest “next-gen” gaming consoles, the Sony PS3 and the Nintendo Wii, I found an interesting case study in innovation vectors. While we won’t know for a many months who the ultimate winner is (although there are early signs) it is clear there are two paths…

A nice list of free and inexpensive gifts you can DIY from MAKE magazine blog.  Some of the gifts I remember most from my youth are the ones my Grandpa made for me.  I wonder if any of these will be as remembered by their recipients? MAKE: Blog: The Open source gift guide – Open…

Gingerbread Nazis I bet if the artist would have shown a 1974 Dodge Monaco with two sunglass wearing gingerbread men inside driving through the crowd of gingerbread Nazi’s it would have stayed on display 😉

We had our global team meeting last week in Plano. It was a really good meeting overall. We all put in long hours over the course of the few says we spend together twice a year, so at night we usually have some activities that will let us blow off a little steam. Here you…

Hugh, I’m interested in Microsoft too, but for a few different reasons.  As a large Microsoft partner I am getting ring side seat to a lot of the changes that are going on there and I think it is going to be a classic business reinvention story when it unfolds.  Whether it’s an example of…

In earlier posts I have written about an idea I have that is one of those that just “sticks with you”.  I think I have been successful in convincing my company to go for it and now I need to find some smart people to help me make it real.  So now its time to…

.!. I am writing this while sitting in the Crown Room at the DFW airport terminal E (and, yes my Verizon EVDO works fine here).  I am sitting in the exact same place I was last night at about the same time trying to get on the same flight as I was at this time…

John Dodds does a nice post on the realities of marketing in the Web2 world.  A nice short summization of the already short cluetrain manifesto, which I still read at least once a year.  “Markets are conversations” still changes the way I look at marketing every day. Make Marketing History: The J Train (A Marketing…